Recognized among NVIDIA, Snowflake, Intuit, and Okta, Yoodli’s AI-powered experiential learning platform is redefining how enterprise teams build readiness for high-stakes conversations.
Yoodli has been named the Cognitive Communications Solution of the Year by the 2026 AI Breakthrough Awards, one of the most established and competitive AI recognition programs running today.
About the AI Breakthrough Awards
Now in its eighth year, the AI Breakthrough Awards program received more than 5,000 nominations from organizations across 20+ countries in 2026, with winners spanning every major category of AI innovation, from machine learning and generative AI to enterprise automation and data intelligence. This year’s honorees include NVIDIA, Snowflake, Intuit, Okta, and Superhuman, among others, which makes the recognition meaningful in a way that goes beyond the trophy itself.
Why cognitive communications is its own category
Communication is one of the most human skills there is, and it’s also one of the hardest to develop consistently across an enterprise. Most organizational learning programs are built around the wrong question; they measure whether someone completed a course, attended a workshop, or watched a video, but they can’t tell you whether that person can handle the conversation when something real is on the line.
That’s exactly what this recognition reflects, and why Yoodli was built to do something different.
Our AI-powered experiential learning platform gives teams a private, judgment-free space to work through the Learn → Practice → Do loop, rehearsing real conversations, receiving immediate and consistent feedback, and building the kind of readiness that shows up in performance. Whether the moment is a high-stakes sales call, an executive presentation, a difficult customer conversation, or a leadership interaction that sets the tone for a team, Yoodli makes realistic, personalized practice available to every person in an organization, at a scale no human coaching program can match.
Being recognized specifically for cognitive communications reflects something we’ve believed since the beginning: there’s a meaningful difference between AI that processes language and AI that genuinely helps people communicate better, and that difference shows up in outcomes.
Those aren’t completion metrics, they’re performance outcomes, and that distinction is exactly what this award is about.
The platform behind the award
Learners don’t consume content and hope it translates. They apply it immediately in realistic AI roleplays, receive actionable coaching on delivery, clarity, and effectiveness, and keep practicing until the skill is genuinely there. Administrators maintain full control over personas, rubrics, scenarios, and coaching standards so that practice reflects how their organization actually works, not a generic template. Leaders get dashboards that show who is ready, where gaps exist, and where coaching time will have the most impact. And because the platform is built to scale horizontally across sales, enablement, L&D, leadership development, and partner training, organizations don’t need to add new tools as they grow, they expand the loop.
That’s what enterprise-grade cognitive communications looks like in practice, and it’s what earned this recognition.
What’s next
Our team continues to push the boundaries of what AI-powered experiential learning can do for enterprise organizations, and this award reinforces that the category we’re building is real, the outcomes are measurable, and the demand from teams who want to close the gap between training and performance is only growing.
To our customers, our partners, and everyone on the Yoodli team who makes this possible: thank you. This one is for you.
Yoodli is a secure, AI-powered experiential learning platform that helps enterprise teams learn, practice, and perform in high-stakes conversations. Learn more atyoodli.ai.
The content that prepares your team and the practice that proves they’re ready now live in one place.
For years, building a training program meant doing work in two places. You created content somewhere else, a shared drive, an LMS, a product folder, then brought it into a roleplay for practice. It worked. But it left a step between the material teams needed to learn and the platform where they went to apply it.
That gap closes today.
Yoodli now auto-generates the learning content that powers AI Roleplays. Upload any existing source material, a deck, a doc, a product brief, a playbook, and Yoodli generates structured, visual learning content in minutes. The same platform where your team practices is now the platform where their learning content is created.
The Problem Is the Distance
Most organizations don’t lack good source material. Product teams ship detailed release notes. Enablement managers maintain thorough playbooks. Sales leaders build competitive battlecards.
The problem is the distance between that material and a rep who translates it in a conversation.
Translating source content into something teachable has always required time, design tools, and manual effort. For GTM enablement managers, moving from a product launch to a live training program can take weeks. By the time training lands, the moment has often passed.
As one attendee put it in our live webinar: “ugh, documentation.” Six people upvoted it. We felt that.
Auto-generated learning content is built to close that gap. Upload your source. Yoodli generates the rest.
What It Looks Like in Practice
During our June webinar, Christen Miyasato, a lead designer at Yoodli, walked through the workflow using a scenario every retail enablement team would recognize.
Imagine you’re at Nike. A new signature shoe is dropping. Hundreds of store associates across dozens of countries need to be able to talk about it confidently before it hits shelves.
In the old world: a doc gets emailed out, maybe a PDF gets printed, associates read it (or don’t), and then walk onto the floor hoping for the best.
In Yoodli’s world: an admin uploads the product documentation and types “create training for a new shoe drop.” Yoodli auto-generates visual learning content from that material, with check-in questions woven in. Associates log in, meet their AI training persona, and get taught the material in a two-way conversation:
AI persona: “Before I dive in, what have you heard about the Carter One so far?”
Learner: “Not much. Can you just give me the top three things I need to know?”
AI persona: “Perfect. Here’s the foundation…”
The learner navigates at their own pace, asks questions in their own words, and when they’re ready, jumps into a live roleplay to practice the pitch in real time. No waiting for an instructor. No sitting through a recording to find the two minutes that matter.
Learn → Practice → Do, Finally in One Place
What makes this more than a content generation feature is the arc it creates.
Your AI tutor explains the concepts, checks in, and adapts to how the learner is engaging. If they say “I got it, skip ahead,” it skips. If they’re confused, it slows down. Once they’ve got the material, it shifts into a roleplay. Then it tests them at the end — all in the same session.
Admins keep full control throughout. Before any learner sees the generated content, you can edit text inline, regenerate individual sections with custom instructions, reorder, swap images, and customize the color palette. It’s AI-assisted, not AI-dictated.
A Few Things People Asked
Can I use my own existing content instead of generating something new? Yes. If you already have polished, roleplay-ready visuals, upload them directly and add instructions for how the AI should present them. Auto-generation is for when you have raw source material that needs to become something visual and consumable.
What does a knowledge check look like at the end? It’s conversational, not a static quiz. The format is customizable: multiple choice, scenario-based (“how would you handle this objection?”), or open-ended. Whatever your organization’s rubric looks like, you can build it in. Several customers use this for formal accreditation and partner certification, including Google Cloud and SAP.
Is my content used to train AI models? No. Yoodli is SOC 2 Type 2 certified and GDPR compliant. Your data is not used to train any AI models and can be deleted at any time.
What’s Next
This is where it starts. Today, auto-generation works inside Yoodli’s experience, upload your source material, generating the content, and your team is practicing the same day. What comes next is a tighter loop still: a single platform where learning content is created, delivered, practiced, and proven. We’ll have more to share soon.
Auto-generated learning content is generally available to all Yoodli enterprise account customers as of June 9, 2026. No additional cost, no new setup. Open your roleplay builder and look for content generation under the AI Visual Content section.
To see Yoodli in action, request a demo or explore our customer case studies at yoodli.ai.
Questions? Reach out to your Yoodli account team or visit yoodli.ai.
Training Industry, the most trusted source of information on the business of learning, has named Yoodli to its 2026 Top 20 AI Coaching and Learner Support Tools Companies list. This recognition places Yoodli among the top AI learning platforms for enterprise teams providers shaping how organizations use AI to develop their people at scale.
What Is the Training Industry Top 20 List?
Training Industry continuously monitors the L&D marketplace to identify the leading providers of AI-powered coaching and learner support. The Top 20 list is built specifically to help buy-side organizations find the right partners for enhancing learner development and performance.
Selection is based on four criteria: scope and quality of AI coaching capabilities, market presence and innovation, strength of client portfolio and customer relationships, and business performance and growth trajectory.
Being named to this list is not just a badge. It signals that a platform is delivering real, measurable outcomes in enterprise learning environments.
Why This Matters Now
The hard problem in enterprise L&D is no longer content delivery. Organizations can get information to people. The hard problem is closing the gap between knowing and doing.
Most training still measures completion, attendance, and hours trained. None of that tells a leader whether their team can handle the moment that counts. That is the gap Yoodli was built to close.
With AI roleplays, an AI Tutor that teaches from your actual content, and a full Learn, Practice, Do loop, Yoodli turns learning into action. Learners do not just consume material. They practice real scenarios, get consistent feedback, and build the skills that show up in real conversations.
Why enterprises choose an AI learning platform built for the full loop
This recognition reflects what is happening inside the organizations that use Yoodli every day:
These outcomes are not about completion rates. They are about readiness. That is where Yoodli starts.
Practice That Feels Real. Performance That Shows Up.
What separates Yoodli from traditional training tools is what happens after the content is delivered. Learners step into realistic AI-powered scenarios that mirror the conversations they actually have, with real objections, real pressure, and immediate feedback on what to improve.
Managers get visibility into readiness across their teams without sitting in on every session. Enablement teams can build structured programs that take learners from material to mastery inside a single platform. And leaders can see who is ready, who needs support, and where coaching time will have the biggest impact.
This is what the shift from tracking completion to tracking capability actually looks like.
One Platform. The Full Loop.
Yoodli is not a point solution for one team or one use case. Organizations start with high-stakes revenue teams where the ROI is immediate, then expand the same platform to L&D, leadership development, onboarding, and partner enablement.
With 900% revenue growth year over year, 95%+ enterprise retention, and nearly one million users across consumer and enterprise platforms, the market is validating what our customers already know: practice changes behavior in ways that content alone never will.
Being recognized by Training Industry is a reflection of that momentum, and of every customer who trusted Yoodli to be part of how their teams prepare.
To see Yoodli in action, request a demo or explore our customer case studies at yoodli.ai.
San Salvador : The Government of El Salvador has partnered with Yoodli, an AI-powered roleplay and coaching platform, to strengthen doctor-patient communication across the country. As El Salvador expands access to virtual care, the government is focused on ensuring that every patient conversation, whether in-person or online, is clear, empathetic, and consistent.
Through this initiative, thousands of doctors nationwide will be supported with communication training that can scale beyond traditional workshops. Yoodli enables physicians to practice realistic patient interactions, receive immediate feedback, and build confidence in a private, judgment-free environment. The result is a stronger, more patient-centered experience delivered consistently across the healthcare system.
The Challenge: Scaling Communication Training for a Growing Virtual Care System
Clear doctor-patient communication directly affects trust, understanding, and health outcomes. As healthcare shifts toward more virtual visits, the risk of miscommunication increases, especially when conversations involve complex diagnoses, sensitive topics, or high emotional stakes.
At the same time, training every doctor through in-person programs alone is difficult to scale quickly and consistently across regions.
El Salvador needed a modern training approach that could:
Prepare doctors for high-quality virtual consultations
Standardize communication skills across a national workforce
Improve clarity and empathy in patient conversations
Deliver training at scale without requiring proportional increases in facilitator time and logistics
The Solution: AI-Powered Practice That Builds Real Skill at National Scale
Yoodli gives doctors access to realistic patient scenarios that reflect the conversations they face in real clinical settings. Physicians can practice consultations, receive real-time coaching, and improve through repetition. This is one of the most reliable ways to build confidence and long-term communication skill.
Through the program, El Salvador is enabling doctors to:
Strengthen virtual bedside manner by practicing remote consultations
Improve clarity and structure so patients better understand diagnoses and treatment plans
Practice high-stakes conversations, including emotionally sensitive scenarios
Receive consistent training nationwide, regardless of location or specialty
Scaled Adoption and Measurable Impact
In 2025, the program saw both broad reach and sustained practice. This is a strong indicator that doctors were not just trying the platform, but returning consistently to build real communication skills.
1,800+ doctors and learners trained
934,000 minutes of practice completed(The equivalent of 21 months of training time, delivered on demand across the system.)
Top participants completed hundreds of simulated consultations, with the most active users approaching 700 sessions in a single year
Several core competencies improved by 60%+, indicating meaningful skill growth and stronger communication readiness
These results reflect what matters: the ability to standardize the quality of patient communication across the country and help doctors build confidence as virtual care becomes a larger part of healthcare delivery.
Built on Secure, Scalable Google Cloud Infrastructure
To support national scale deployment, Yoodli is built on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and leverages Gemini-powered capabilities to deliver realistic AI roleplays, coaching insights, and scalable training experiences. The platform is designed for reliability, performance, and strong security standards, which are essential for public-sector environments.
Yoodli is SOC 2 Type II and GDPR-compliant, enabling a trusted implementation in systems where privacy and data protection are critical.
Want to see what Yoodli can do for your team? Learn more here or contact sales@yoodli.ai.
TL;DR: Ochsner Health partnered with Yoodli to give entry- and mid-level leaders a private, repeatable way to practice the conversations that are hardest to get right: addressing performance, developing careers, and restoring trust. Through a structured leadership development experience, leaders completed AI roleplay scenarios and demonstrated improvement across custom goals. The result: leaders who feel more prepared, a development team with objective data to act on, and a scalable model for strengthening leadership capability across a complex, distributed health system.
Background
Ochsner Health is a leading healthcare system across the Gulf South, focused on delivering high-quality, reliable care to the patients and communities they serve. Their leadership development team partners with stakeholders across the system to strengthen leader effectiveness, particularly in areas that directly impact patient access, quality and safety, and employee and patient experience.
The Challenge Before Yoodli
Leaders at Ochsner regularly faced high-stakes conversations that shaped team performance, employee engagement, and ultimately patient care. Three conversation types stood out as both common and consistently challenging: addressing declining performance, conducting career development discussions, and restoring trust after it has been strained or broken.
While leaders were introduced to frameworks and best practices, opportunities for meaningful, repeatable skill practice were limited. In a healthcare system as large and complex as Ochsner, it was difficult to implement conversation practice that is both consistent across the organization and scalable for large numbers of leaders.
There were also significant gaps in feedback. Leaders were frequently focused on providing feedback to their teams, but fewer mechanisms existed to give leaders targeted, objective feedback on their own communication skills.
The team at Ochsner knew that when leaders are underprepared or avoid these conversations, the cost is felt by their teams and ultimately by patients. Underdeveloped conversation skills can negatively impact the employee experience, individual performance, and a person’s decision to stay with a team or the organization.
The Solution
Ochsner’s leadership development team partnered with Yoodli to design a structured, practice-based AI roleplay experience for entry- to mid-level leaders. The program was built around three core conversation types: performance, career development, and trust restoration, with Yoodli’s platform fully customized to reflect Ochsner’s organizational context, language, and leadership standards.
Why Yoodli
Ochsner selected Yoodli for its combination of realistic, customizable roleplay, robust analytics, and ability to scale across a large, geographically distributed system. The platform allows Ochsner to reach leaders across different regions and audiences that the central team cannot visit regularly, while still delivering consistent, high-quality practice.
Implementation and how Yoodli was used:
Program Design
The leadership development team, in partnership with senior leadership, identified a need for entry to mid-level leaders to have a structured way of practicing and improving how they approached critical conversations. Participating leaders represented a range of roles and experience levels, most managing teams and responsible for navigating complex interpersonal situations.
Each leader worked through roleplay scenarios spanning the three conversation types. The Ochsner team and their subject matter experts built out a set of custom goals, each with its own scoring criteria and coaching language, in order to make feedback feel specific and relevant rather than generic. To keep practice realistic, Yoodli featured three distinct AI personas (enthusiastic, blunt, and skeptical), giving leaders a chance to navigate the kinds of personalities they would actually encounter.
Leaders had a defined practice period with flexibility in how they engaged, as this was designed to fit into a busy day while still driving progress. There were no grades on a first try, no manager watching over their shoulder, just a low-stakes space to try, stumble, and get better.
Leaders completed roleplay scenarios across three conversation types
Twelve custom goals were designed in partnership with subject matter experts, customized with user-facing descriptions, scoring criteria, and analytical explanations
Three distinct AI personas, enthusiastic, blunt, and skeptical, gave leaders experience navigating a range of personality types
Practice was self-paced, judgment-free, and repeatable, allowing leaders to build confidence over time
THE RESULTS
The data told a clear story: practice worked. Rather than improving in just one area, leaders strengthened goals across core dimensions of effective leadership communication:
Driving Ownership and Accountability
Goals such as empowering ownership, clarifying expectations, clarity on growth goals, and practicing accountability saw some of the largest gains overall. These behaviors are critical for setting direction, reinforcing standards, and ensuring team members take responsibility for outcomes.
Building Trust and Psychological Safety
Leaders also improved in confronting reality, talking truthfully, extending trust, creating transparency, fostering psychological safety, and keeping commitments. These are essential for fostering open dialogue and strong team relationships, particularly in high-stakes environments.
Shared Understanding and Alignment
Goals such as perspective-taking and working toward shared solutions showed improvement, reflecting stronger confidence in addressing challenges directly while maintaining alignment and respect.
Several key patterns stood out in the data:
The three goals with the largest improvement—empowering ownership, extending trust, and clarifying expectations—were also among the lowest starting scores, suggesting that targeted practice helped address the areas of greatest initial need.
Leaders demonstrated progress across both relational and execution-focused skills, reinforcing that effective leadership communication requires both.
WHAT LEADERS SAID
The numbers provided by Yoodli analytics reflect improvement on paper, however what leaders described as the biggest shift was in how they were showing up for their teams after their training. They talked about getting better at stepping back instead of jumping in with answers, creating space for team members to take ownership, recognizing patterns in how they asked questions and listening more carefully to the responses, and setting clearer expectations from the start of a conversation rather than trying to course-correct later. Senior leadership has also seen the impact of this work:
“Yoodli provided our leaders with a valuable opportunity to practice engaging in courageous conversations in a private, low-risk setting. The platform delivered immediate, actionable feedback—particularly around tone and word choice—while incorporating a variety of scenarios and personality types. As a result, we have seen a meaningful improvement in both the quality of these discussions and in leaders’ confidence to thoughtfully engage and remain present in challenging conversations.”
— Stephanie Wells, System Vice President-Revenue Cycle, Ochsner Health
THE IMPACT ON OCHSNER’S BUSINESS NEEDS
These leadership conversations directly impact patient access, quality and safety, and employee and patient experience. Patient access depends on leaders who can set clear expectations, address performance gaps early, and empower team members to take ownership of throughput, scheduling, and handoffs. Practicing these conversations helps leaders surface barriers faster and reduce avoidable friction in patient care. Quality and safety are strengthened when leaders consistently create psychological safety and talk truthfully. Leaders who are practiced in confronting reality without blame are more likely to hear about risks and concerns before they escalate. Skills such as clarifying expectations, extending trust, and holding people accountable are the same skills required in highly complex care environments. Employee and patient experience hinge on daily leadership interactions. When leaders listen more carefully, resist jumping straight to solutions, and involve team members in problem-solving, employees experience greater respect, clarity, and ownership. That experience is inseparable from the experience patients ultimately receive.
This kind of practice is especially powerful because it happens before the real consequences are at stake. By rehearsing critical conversations, leaders build muscle memory they can draw on when the pressure is real. Instead of learning through mistakes that affect people and patients, leaders arrive more prepared, intentional, and consistent. AI-enabled practice helps reduce risk and strengthen performance readiness. It strengthens the human interactions for Ochsner team members to deliver safe, timely, high-quality care at scale.
WHAT’S NOW POSSIBLE
For Ochsner’s leadership development team, the most valuable output wasn’t just better-prepared leaders, but also visibility. They had objective, scenario-based data on how their leaders communicate, not filtered through a manager’s perception or a self-assessment, but captured through structured practice in controlled conditions.
That kind of data changed what’s possible for learning and development. The team can now see which skills need more investment, which leaders are ready and which need more support, and where to focus development resources across a large, distributed system. It’s the difference between designing programs based on intuition and designing them based on evidence.
WHAT’S NEXT FOR OCHSNER
The results from this initial experience gave Ochsner’s leadership development team enough confidence to expand. What began as a focused pilot cohort has grown into a broader rollout in Yoodli across the organization, reaching more leaders, more functions, and more conversation types.
The team is now focused on connecting practice to performance, examining whether the gains leaders showed in Yoodli translate to observable changes in how they lead their teams day to day. That includes direct-report feedback, on-the-job behavior, and longer-term retention and engagement outcomes.
The ambition is bigger than a single program. Ochsner sees AI-enabled practice as a core part of how they develop leaders at scale, and this work has served as an important foundation.
ADVICE FOR OTHER HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS
The Ochsner team offered three pieces of advice they’d tell any organization considering this kind of program:
Bring your subject matter experts in early. The scenarios and goals only feel real if they reflect the actual language, context, and challenges of your organization. Don’t leave that customization to chance.
Build your governance structure before you launch. Think through who owns the admin, how programs are organized, and how you’ll use the data coming out of the tool. It’s much easier to set up the right structure at the start than to untangle it later.
Stay curious about what else is possible. Ochsner started with a focused exploration of the tool. The use cases have already expanded, and they’re just getting started.
Want to learn how Yoodli can support training and leadership development at your organization? Contact our team.
Case Study | Education & Language Learning | AI Tutor
TL;DR
Accepted Egypt, an intensive English language training program based in Cairo, partnered with Yoodli after evaluating multiple AI tools over more than a year. Yoodli was the only platform that delivered genuine two-way conversational AI, custom rubric-based scoring, and behavior-controlled AI personas, without requiring extensive prompting or technical expertise.
In 6 months: 75+ learners enrolled, 613+ hours of AI practice completed, 9.3k roleplay practices across ~260 lessons, 76% of learners improved by 20+ points on English speaking skills, and 47% graduates secured employment in Egypt’s Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector, with salary increases from 10,000 EGP to 22,000 EGP per month (2.2x).
Background
Accepted Egypt is an intensive English language training program that helps Arabic-speaking adults in Cairo enhance their English communication skills to qualify for higher-paying employment, particularly in Egypt’s rapidly growing BPO sector and call center industry.
The program takes learners from beginner (A1) to job-ready (B1+) proficiency within 60 to 90 days through a combination of daily instructor-led sessions and high-volume guided AI practice tasks.
Founded by Mohamed Farahat, a former Teleperformance Egypt quality analyst and recruiter, Accepted Egypt was built on a single insight: Egypt’s skilled labor market faces a structural gap. Global companies are relocating operations to Egypt driven by cost advantages (1 USD = 50 EGP), but consistently struggle to find workers with the English proficiency required for client-facing roles. Accepted Egypt bridges that gap, combining structured language instruction with AI-powered practice at scale.
Challenge
Before Yoodli, Accepted Egypt spent more than a year evaluating and using alternative AI practice platforms. Other tools missed the mark in these critical areas:
No Custom Content Upload
Most platforms come with pre-built content libraries that cannot be modified. This forced a painful choice: either adapt the institution’s curriculum to match the vendor’s content, or accept that students would practice tasks completely unrelated to what they learned in class. A student trained on describing personal memories in an Egyptian context would go home to practice tasks about topics like ‘Day of the Dead’, a culturally disconnected experience that undermined learning transfer and student motivation.
No Genuine Two-Way Conversation
The majority of tools operate on a ‘press a button, say a sentence’ model. Students repeat phrases or respond to static prompts. There is no back-and-forth, no follow-up question, no conversational pressure, no simulation of a real interaction. This is fundamentally different from what a BPO job requires, where an agent must listen, process, and respond dynamically in real time.
No AI Behavior Control
Some tools offer a form of conversational AI, but with no backend control over how the AI behaves. Building a realistic scenario required 30 to 45 minutes of detailed prompting, and even then the results were inconsistent and unpredictable.
Credit Exhaustion Kills Practice
Platforms simply stopped responding when credits ran out, mid-session, without warning. For a program that requires students to complete four practice tasks per day, five days per week, this kind of interruption is operationally unacceptable.
The Solution
After more than a year of evaluation, Yoodli was selected as the only platform that met all of Accepted Egypt’s core requirements simultaneously:
Genuine Two-Way Conversational AI English Training
Yoodli enables real-time, spoken back-and-forth dialogue. The AI does not just wait for a student to finish speaking, it engages, challenges, asks follow-up questions, and responds to what the student actually says. This mirrors the conversational demands of a real BPO role in a way no other evaluated tool could replicate.
Custom Content: Built Around Our Curriculum
Yoodli allows institutions to build practice scenarios from scratch using their own content. At Accepted Egypt, every AI practice task is built directly from the lesson taught that day: same vocabulary, same functional language, same context. Students practice exactly what they learned. This closes the gap between instruction and practice that undermined every other tool we tried.
AI Behavior That Works Without Extensive Prompting
Yoodli’s backend AI behavior system is the most significant differentiator. A prompt that would take 30 to 45 minutes to build on another platform takes 5 to 10 minutes on Yoodli, and produces better results. The AI understands context. If the scenario requires a frustrated customer who gradually calms down when handled professionally, Yoodli delivers that naturally. It does not need to be told every single thing, as long as the situation is set up correctly, the AI does the job.
Yoodli also provides a measure of prompt quality, indicating whether a prompt is likely to produce a strong, medium, or weak AI interaction. This feedback loop helped our instructors improve their content creation skills over time, without requiring any technical background in AI or prompt engineering.
Multiple Personas: Variety at Scale
Yoodli supports multiple AI personas within a single program. Students at Accepted Egypt are exposed to different conversational styles, accents, interaction patterns, and character types. From patient tutors to assertive interviewers to demanding customers. This variety prevents adaptation to a single AI voice and builds genuine conversational flexibility.
Custom Rubric-Based Scoring Across Five Dimensions
Every practice session at Accepted Egypt is scored across 5 speaking dimensions:
Fluency: smoothness and natural flow of speech
Grammar: accuracy of sentence structure
Pronunciation: clarity and intelligibility
Natural English: use of idiomatic, contextually appropriate language
Tonality: appropriate register, warmth, and professionalism
These rubrics are custom-built for each proficiency level (A1 through B1+), and become progressively more demanding as students advance. A score of 4/5 at A2 requires a higher standard of performance at B1, ensuring students are continuously challenged, not just repeating the same level of effort.
Results of AI English Training
Across 6 months of deployment, the Yoodli-powered program at Accepted Egypt delivered measurable outcomes across four dimensions:
Beyond the quantitative results, Accepted Egypt’s experience highlights several qualitative outcomes that speak to the AI Tutor‘s differentiated value:
Competitive tool replacement: After more than a year with previous solutions and evaluations of multiple alternatives, Yoodli was the only tool that met Accepted Egypt’s requirements for two-way conversational AI, custom rubric scoring, and scalable guided practice
Behavioral AI quality: Yoodli that the system “is smart enough so I don’t have to tell it every single thing, as long as I set up the situation, the AI does the job.” Compared to other services where prompting an angry customer persona required extensive effort and produced unrealistic extremes, Yoodli’s AI produced natural, context-appropriate responses with minimal prompting.
User-friendly design: Teachers with no AI or prompting background can create and manage practice scenarios, lowering the barrier to scaling the program beyond Mohamed’s direct involvement.
WHAT’S NEXT
Q2 2026: Scaling to 400+ Learners
Accepted Egypt is launching a major Q2 initiative targeting 400+ learners, partnering with educational influencers across Egypt to reach new audiences. Yoodli’s AI Tutor will serve as the core practice engine for this expanded cohort. The first institutional-scale AI English training deployment of its kind in Egypt.
AI Tutor-Led Instruction
Accepted Egypt is actively testing Yoodli’s screen sharing and PowerPoint integration to explore delivering full structured lessons, not just practice tasks, through the AI Tutor. If successful, this shifts the business model from instructor-dependent delivery to AI-led tutoring at scale. This allows the program to serve significantly more learners without proportional instructor overhead.
Beyond English: Finance, Management, and Professional Skills
The architecture Accepted Egypt has built on Yoodli, custom rubrics, progressive difficulty, persona-based practice, is not limited to language learning. Future programs will use the same framework to tutor learners on finance for non-financial professionals, people management, and business communication skills. Yoodli’s AI is smart enough to operate across domains as long as the situation is set up correctly, and Accepted Egypt intends to prove that at scale.
University Partnerships
Accepted Egypt is in early discussions with Egyptian universities to integrate Yoodli into their learning cycles, bringing AI-powered speaking practice to thousands of students who currently have no access to structured conversational English training.
The Middle East Opportunity
Egypt is not an isolated case. Across the Middle East and North Africa, the same structural gap exists: a growing demand for English-proficient workers in BPO, technology, and professional services, and a workforce that lacks the conversational practice infrastructure to meet that demand. The economic incentive is significant: in Egypt alone, the difference between a non-English-proficient worker and a B1-level English speaker is a salary increase of more than 100%.
Accepted Egypt represents proof that Yoodli can operate at institutional scale in this market, with measurable outcomes, high engagement, and real employment results. The opportunity to expand this model across the region is significant, and Accepted Egypt is positioned to be Yoodli’s regional implementation partner as that expansion unfolds.
ABOUT ACCEPTED EGYPT
Accepted Egypt is an intensive English language training program based in Cairo that helps Arabic-speaking adults enhance their English proficiency within 60 to 90 days to qualify for higher-paying employment in Egypt’s growing BPO and technology sectors. The program combines daily instructor-led sessions with AI-powered guided practice to deliver rapid fluency gains at scale.
ABOUT YOODLI
Yoodli is a secure, experiential learning platform that uses AI roleplays to help individuals and teams practice real-world conversations, presentations, and professional interactions. With AI Tutor, AI Roleplays, and continuous coaching, Yoodli closes the loop between learning, practice, and real-world performance. The Seattle-based company is trusted by Fortune 100 companies, leading training providers, and educational institutions to deliver scalable, judgment-free coaching across sales, leadership, customer success, and language learning. Learn more at yoodli.ai.
In a recent impassioned speech, Cory Booker delivered a fiery defense of vulnerable social programs like Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. His delivery wasn’t just about policy, it was about people.
But how do we know what made the speech land — or where it risked losing its impact?
Here’s what Yoodli picked up on, and what we can learn from it.
What Booker Got Right
Yoodli: “Your passion shines through in your speech and establishes a strong emotional connection with your audience.”
From the opening lines to the closing appeals, the speaker used heartfelt personal anecdotes — like letters from struggling constituents — to humanize political issues. One standout line pulled straight from the Yoodli feedback:
“But if America hasn’t broken your heart, you don’t love her enough.”
It’s powerful. Vulnerable. And it communicates urgency without needing statistics.
Emotion drives action. Whether you’re a policymaker or a seller, if your audience feels something, they’re more likely to engage.
What Could Be Better
Despite the passion, Yoodli flagged a common pitfall: the speech felt repetitive and lacked concise phrasing in parts.
Yoodli: “Your speech often feels repetitive and lacks concise phrasing, reducing its impact.”
To address this, Yoodli recommended using the Rule of Three — a classic communication technique that clusters ideas into punchy, memorable triads. For instance, instead of long paragraphs, a line like this could be stronger:
“Reduced office locations, longer processing times, and denied benefits.”
Structure doesn’t limit emotion — it supports it. The most powerful speeches marry heart with clarity.
Why it Matters
Whether you’re in government, sales, or advocacy, public speaking is more than just what you say — it’s how you say it. Tools like Yoodli make that visible by giving leaders real-time, personalized coaching on:
Emotional tone
Word choice and filler usage
Clarity and pacing
Persuasive structure
In this case, Yoodli surfaced both the passion that made the speech compelling and the opportunities to tighten its delivery — so the message hits harder.
The Takeaway
The heart of democracy is communication. When we equip leaders with tools to speak with clarity and conviction, we don’t just improve speeches — we move people.
Whether you’re coaching a candidate or crafting a sales pitch: emotional intelligence plus AI feedback is a game-changer.
Ready for your own game-changing speedh? Check us out!
Note: This analysis reflects feedback from Yoodli’s AI and does not represent the views or political affiliations of the Yoodli team.
We’re excited to announce a strategic partnership between Yoodli and Arist, combining two leading platforms to revolutionize how go-to-market teams learn, practice, and perform.
What This Means for Customers
Arist customers can now access Yoodli’s AI-powered roleplays to help onboard reps faster, reinforce key skills, and reduce the burden on frontline managers.
Yoodli customers can now leverage Arist’s rapid mobile-first learning platform to push critical updates – from AI upskilling to competitive shifts – to reps in real-time via SMS, Microsoft Teams, and Slack.
Alt: Companies like Novartis, Ecolab and ExxonMobil rely on Arist to push critical updates and training to reps in the tools they are already addicted to. Companies like Google, FranklinCovey, Sandler, Korn Ferry rely on Yoodli to deliver scalable, AI-driven practice. Thanks to this partnership, enablement teams don’t need to choose between speed to market and real-time sales practice.
“Sales enablement is evolving fast. Combining Arist’s mobile-first training with Yoodli’s AI roleplays means teams can now learn, practice, and reinforce skills—all without pulling reps off the floor. It’s a win-win for productivity and performance.”
— Varun Puri, CEO at Yoodli
“We’re excited to partner with Yoodli to offer the next generation of just-in-time training. Our joint solution pushes critical info to where reps already are, builds confidence through AI coaching, and ultimately drives outcomes faster.”
— Michael Ioffe, CEO at Arist
Why It Matters
Traditional training is hard to scale and often fails to stick. This partnership brings together the best of both worlds: bite-sized, mobile-first content from Arist, and personalized, AI-powered roleplay practice from Yoodli.
The impact speaks for itself:
• AI Roleplays boosts operational efficiency by 40% and helps reps achieve a 3x+ improvement in quota attainment.
• Arist customers report pushing critical info like product and competitive updates months faster, 10x’ing the speed and adoption of critical training.
Together, this solution empowers enablement teams to move faster, coach smarter, and drive performance at scale.
Want to Learn More?
To learn more about how your team can benefit from this partnership, reach out to sales@yoodli.ai.
Today I want to share something that has absolutely transformed my professional journey – Yoodli AI Roleplays! SQUIRREL! Sorry about that. Where was I? Oh yes, Yoodli!
Yoodli is like Grammarly, but for barking! It helps me practice all kinds of conversations, from pitching my startup idea (Indy’s Innovative Treat Dispensers—still looking for investors, btw) to asking for more belly rubs in a professional yet persuasive manner. You can even use it for your whole pack if you want!
For example, before Yoodli, my request for extra dinner sounded like: bark bark (jumping) whine whine (big eyes) bark bark BARK. Effective? Sometimes. But with Yoodli, I practiced a more structured approach with 3 talking points as to why an extra serving of dinner is crucial to my productivity:
More Food, More Fetch – “Extra dinner means extra energy, which means I can chase the ball even faster. It’s a win-win.”
Bowl-flation is Real – “I’ve crunched the numbers. They were delicious. But I still need more.”
Emotional Support Snack – “Dinner is great, but have you considered the mental health benefits of a little extra? Happiness levels would skyrocket.”
And guess what? It worked.
Also, my attention span? Not great. But Yoodli gives me real-time feedback and keeps me focused! I no longer interrupt important meetings by suddenly thinking about how good sticks are. (They’re really good, though.) The only thing it can’t do is give me fingers for typing, so I’m using Wispr Flow to write this blog post. Sometimes my nose gets on the keyboard and makes tyyyypes loook likeeeeee thisssssss. But that gets fixed when my human edits the ruff draft.
So anyway if you’re a dog—or, I suppose, a human—looking to improve your communication, give Yoodli a try! And if you made it this far, congrats, you’ve just been part of my April Fool’s prank. Or have you? Woof woof.
See you on LinkedIn! Stay pawsitive! 🐾
Chief Barketing Officer | Professional Good Boy | Speaker | LinkedIn Thought Leader | Expert Ball Catcher
Google’s AI-powered chatbot, Bard AI, was only just recently released in 2023. As such, not many people know the ins and outs of this incredible tool.
In our comprehensive guide, we’ll give you the rundown on all the most important things you need to know Bard AI, including:
A brief history
How it works
How to use it
And seven tips and tricks to make your life easier using Bard AI (and more!)
What Is Bard AI?
Bard AI is Google’s conversational AI chat bot. It’s an experimental tool, similar to services like ChatGPT.
It’s pretty widely accessible, as Bard AI can be used in over 230 countries and territories. It also offers capabilities in languages besides English, too.
Why is it called Bard AI?
The reason why Google named its tool Bard AI is a bit endearing. The name Bard AI is based on its capabilities as a storyteller, like a bard. A bard usually refers to someone who writes poetry, songs, or stories.
When was Bard AI released?
Bard AI was released on March 21, 2023. It was first announced earlier that year in February through a press release from Sundar Pichai, Google and Alphabet’s CEO.
Is Bard AI available for anyone?
This tool became available to those on a waitlist basis on March 21, 2023. Currently, anyone can use Bard AI, so long as they have a personal Google account and are a legal adult (18 years or older).
If you don’t have a Google account, you can create one for free and get access to it.
How Does Bard AI Work?
Bard AI works by using generative AI technology. Although the concept of Bard AI was new, the technology it uses was created two years prior to its release. Google released its Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) before the company launched Bard.
Today, Bard AI uses an extremely complex large language model (LLM) — referred to as PaLM 2 — to allow the chat bot to perform even better than before. Compared to the first iteration of Bard AI, the version that uses PaLM 2 is much more efficient and useful.
Google relies on its own “in house” LLMs, LaMDA, and PaLM 2. This is a stark difference from GPT apps like ChatGPT, ChatSonic AI, and Bing Chat, since they all use language models from — you guessed it — the GPT series.
One of the best things about Bard AI is that it’s a conversational model with responses that can be more user friendly. For example, if a user were to prompt the tool by inputting, “What are the best restaurants in Atlanta, Georgia?” it not only gives users a list of quality restaurants, but it also goes a step further and gives more context on why they’re considered the best.
It’s also adept at assisting through follow-up questions, which is a newer function when it comes to these types of models. Other AI apps, such as Yoodli — a speech communication coach that analyzes a user’s speech to help them improve — use AI to generate relevant follow-up questions.
For example, if you use Yoodli to prepare for an upcoming interview, it can ask you intelligent follow-up questions to best help you prepare for and excel at a potential interview. This tool can even flag unconscious bias you might have that you aren’t aware of.
Learn more about this capability below:
Like Bard AI, Yoodli uses generative AI to improve your speech.
With regard to Bard AI, it also allows you to double check responses through fact-checking.
How to Use Google Bard AI
Learning how to use Google Bard AI isn’t as complex as you’d think. It’s very user friendly, even for folks who haven’t experimented with AI or AI chatbots.
In fact, you can use it in a great number of ways. Some examples include using the tool to:
Answer questions you have
Plan a coworker’s baby shower
Brainstorm a plot for a novel
Draft emails for work
Learn more about a subject
Get new ideas for your poetry anthology
Translate languages
7 Tips + Tricks for Using Bard AI
There’s no question about it: Bard AI is an incredibly useful tool. But if you don’t know how to use it properly, or if you feel overwhelmed by all its capabilities, that usefulness is a moot point.
If you’d like to explore this AI chatbot in all its glory, you’re in the right place. Here are seven tips and tricks for using Bard AI to your advantage.
1. Check out the image analysis function.
One of the newer tips and tricks for using Bard AI is with regard to image analysis. For example, if you have an image that you’d like more information on, you can share the picture with Bard and it can:
Provide you with context around the photo
Give you more information on the content of the image
Generate content based on the picture you provide
If you’re a student, you could take a picture of your handwritten notes that you took during your biology lecture and ask Bard AI to summarize them for you. For people who travel, you can also ask Google’s AI tool to create an Instagram-worthy caption for your vacation pictures.
2. Let Bard AI plan your next vacation for you.
Speaking of traveling, Bard AI can also ease your stress and help you plan a trip. There are many ways to go about this. One way is to ask for information on a particular place you’d like to visit (i.e., “Tell me more about [specific destination].”).
You could also ask for itinerary activities based on your destination (i.e., “What are some fun things to do in Okinawa, Japan?”).
3. Compose drafts for cover letters, emails, or even business plans.
It can be tough starting a draft, whether it’s an email for work or a cover letter for a new job potential. Believe it or not, Bard AI can help you compose drafts and the opportunities are endless. Just a few examples of what Bard can help you draft include:
Articles
Presentations
Social media posts
Emails
Poems
Resumes
Reports
Letters of recommendation
Blog posts
Scripts
All you have to do is prompt Bard by typing a command like: “Draft a [whatever you’d like to draft].”
4. Eliminate writers’ block or creative slumps.
Writers’ block — or any creative slump for that matter — can be beyond frustrating. With Bard AI though, you can brainstorm creative ideas for anything you’re interested in.
For example, Bard can help you brainstorm for things like:
Marketing and social media campaigns
Business taglines and slogans
Products and services (including how to improve existing ones)
Solutions to problems in your professional or personal life
5. Get a better idea of your options and which is best for you.
If you’re an indecisive person (or just having trouble choosing between a few options), Bard’s got your back. This AI tool can evaluate options, provide context, and help you choose which one would be best for you.
For example, you might ask something like, “Where are the best vegan restaurants in Kentucky?” and Bard AI will let you know the top rated vegan restaurants with context to help you choose. You could also ask something like, “What are the pros and cons of having a microwedding instead of a large wedding?” to help you make the best decision.
6. Learn how to code and get an introduction to programming.
For people learning how to code or programmers looking to simplify their process, Bard is a valuable resource. It can help you explain aspects of code and what they mean, for example. You can also use it to get a better idea of what the result of a snippet of code would produce.
7. Get some help starting a new project or hobby.
For people who need a little extra push or guidance starting a new project or hobby, Bard AI can help. Simply ask the chatbot something like, “What tools do I need to start crocheting?” or “What’s the best way to start learning how to skateboard?” Maybe, you need some tips for how to speak passionately. It all depends on your personal goals.
You could even ask Bard to make you a plan, like: “Make me a 2-week plan for getting started learning Tamil.”
Bard AI vs. ChatGPT
Both Bard AI and ChatGPT are chatbots that use machine learning (i.e., using LLMs) and natural language processing.
The biggest, most significant difference between Bard AI and ChatGPT is that Bard relies on information pulled straight from the internet. Bard can also pull information from other services and apps specific to Google, including things like:
Docs
Drive
Gmail
Flights
Hotels
Maps
YouTube
With OpenAI’s ChatGPT, however, the responses you’ll get are only accurate up until 2021. ChatGPT was trained on data up to 2021, so anything that’s happened after that year isn’t in this tool’s capabilities.
Another big difference is that ChatGPT is only available in one language: English. On the other hand, Bard AI offers 40 different languages.
Best Bard AI Alternatives
Because AI — particularly generative AI — is such an up-and-coming, exciting area of exploration in tech, there are tons of alternatives to Bard AI.
Here are the five best Bard AI alternatives worth checking out as you explore the chatbot universe.
Similarly to Bard AI, ChatSonic AI uses Google’s search engine to provide users with images or written text. It uses WriteSonic, a text generator that uses AI.
However, unlike Bard AI, ChatSonic AI isn’t free. Instead, you’ll have to pay for a monthly subscription to access all the tools ChatSonic offers, so it’s not as accessible to people.
You.com is a German search engine and created YouChat, an AI chatbot. Similar to other AI chatbots, YouChat can do things like answer any questions you have and give you sources to back up the information, which is very helpful and necessary in the age of misinformation.
This Bard AI alternative is another chatbot powered by AI. However, Jasper Chat has a different target audience: businesses that need brand-specific content. For example, it can help:
Create content relevant to a company’s brand
Have relevant, informative conversations with clients
Neeva — a German search engine brand — created Neeva AI. This tool has the ability to analyze multiple sources of information and condense them into one cohesive answer. For transparency, Neeva AI also gives users hyperlinks to the sources it cited. Using these sources, Neeva’s tool can also use direct quotes in its responses.
OpenAI and Microsoft partnered to create Microsoft Bing, a true Bard AI competitor. This AI tool will do the same things Bard does, except through Bing search results. So for example, a user can ask Microsoft Bing a question and the AI tool will use the search results to provide an answer.
It also has the same natural language chat function Bard AI does, where users can talk to it like a person.
Bard AI FAQs
All things considered, this concept is still relatively new. In fact, many people haven’t even heard of Bard, let alone used it. As such, there are many questions about this AI tool that are still up in the air to some folks.
Here are the top Bard AI FAQs to answer your most commonly asked questions.
What languages does Bard AI offer?
Bard AI offers capabilities in 40 different languages, including Arabic, Chinese (simplified and traditional), English, Farsi, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, and Vietnamese.
Some of the other languages you can use include:
Bengali
Bulgarian
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Estonian
Finnish
Greek
Gujarati
Hebrew
Hungarian
Indonesian
Italian
Kannada
Latvian
Lithuanian
Malayalam
Marathi
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Serbian
Slovak
Slovenian
Swedish
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu
Can you conduct a reverse image search on Bard AI?
In a way, you can conduct a reverse image search on Bard AI. Google added multimodal search in updates released in July 2023, so you can input text as well as images into its search bar.
To offer a multimodal search capability, Google integrated Google Lens directly into Bard. With this option, you can provide the chatbot with an image and the tool can give you more information on the picture.
Are there drawbacks to Bard AI?
Bard AI has received some negative feedback from users who reported the chatbot gave them factually incorrect responses.
Perhaps the most famous incident that kicked off this controversy happened at the tool’s launch.
A demo of Bard AI’s capabilities — posted in a Tweet by Google — showed the prompt: “What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9-year-old about?”
Bard’s response was: “JWST took the very first pictures of a planet outside of our own solar system.”
This, as you might’ve guessed, is a huge fact error, which folks on Twitter were quick to point out. Astronomers in particular highlighted the actual first pictures of a planet outside our solar system, which were taken by an observatory on Earth in 2004. As a consequence, Google’s market value dropped $100 billion the following day.
Other drawbacks to thisAI chatbot include that it:
Doesn’t automatically include sources in its responses
Can have trouble answering simple questions from users
Has a slower response time than other similar tools
Is Bard AI free?
As of 2023, Bard AI is completely free for anyone to use, so long as they’re 18 years or older and have a Google account. There’s also no signs that this will change any time soon.
Google as a brand is known for offering its services for free, and assuming it’ll be integrated into Google’s search engine, it doesn’t look like Google will be charging users in the near future.
Does Bard AI use images in its responses?
Yes, Bard AI can use images in its responses to user prompts. In May 2023, it received updates that allow this capability.
When a user asks a question or prompts Bard AI and an image can add value to its answer, the AI tool will provide pictures to better illustrate its response.
The Key Takeaway
Bard AI is an incredible tool that virtually anyone can use to their advantage. Whether you’re looking for a great vegetarian recipe to get rid of those sprouting potatoes on your counter or you’re searching for the best waterfall spots in South Carolina, this AI tool can provide you with answers and information.
The field of AI is still in its infancy, but there are plenty of other AI-powered resources to check out, from Yoodli to YouChat.
